Spacecraft crews at Baikonur

USSR. Kazakh SSR. October 18, 1969. The crew of the Soyuz-8 spacecraft, commander Vladimir Aleksandrovich Shatalov, flight engineer Aleksei Stanislavovich Eliseev, the crew of the Soyuz-7 spacecraft, commander Anatoly Vasilyevich Filipchenko, research engineer Viktor Vasilyevich Gorbatko and flight engineer Vladimir Nikolayevich Volkov, the crew of the Soyuz-6 spacecraft, flight engineer Valery Nikolayevich Kubasov and commander Georgy Stepanovich Shonin (from left to right) at the Kosmonavt Hotel at the Baikonur Cosmodrome after the completion of the world's first group flight of three spacecraft, Soyuz-6, Soyuz-7 and Soyuz-8. Valentin Cheredintsev/TASS